Ok, so besides eating less, what are you intending to do to reduce your belly? It needs to be more specific than that, so your next actions might be "plan this week's meals", "prepare healthy snack for breaktime today", "go to the gym on X day and spend X time on X machine", "write reminder and place on fridge", "brainstorm triggers that make me eat too much".

Also don't forget to decide the successful outcome. At what point do you call this project finished? Is there a waist measurement or weight that you'll call done?

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My project is to reduce my belly. The next action is to eat less That's obvious. Where should I put that next action in my system?

Actually I wouldn't say that the action is either obvious or should be eating less.

A belly is fat, what you are really trying to do is reduce bodyfat percentage. Current research indicates that not eating enough (the standard 'diet'), pushing your body into the famine response and becoming insulin resistant is more likely to make you fatter and cause you to store more fat. Eating high amounts of processed foods, lots of grains and legumes, insufficient fats and not enough protein all will conspire to cause you to store fat rather than lose it.

So My next action for a reduce belly project would be to track my food intake for a week and see whether I am getting enough fat and protein and where my carbs are coming from.

Depending on those results I would stop all processed foods, sugary foods, sodas, grains and legumes, add more good healthy fats and increase the calories with additional protein. The goal would be to get my body to start using fat as an energy source and reduce its need for direct glucose from carbs and sugars.

That combined with testing my insulin response with blood tests and adding in weight bearing exercises (like weight lifting) would do more to get my chubby belly gone than eating less.

I would also ignore the scale, measurements are more important, do a quick google on scale lies and you will find some rather fascinating pictures of people who are actually much more fit and now weigh more than they did when they were fat. Weight and Fitness are not really correlated well, bodyfat percentages and fitness are.

A project involved with "losing belly" might be something more like, "Develop habit of walking three nights a week." And your NA would be, "Schedule time to walk three times this week." Then you have three, time-bound next-actions, "take walk" and you do them.

Repeat each week until you have developed habit of walking.

Your project isn't a project, and your next action isn't a next action. You're operating at about 40,000 and 20,000 feet ("eat less" = more of an area of focus, if indeed, that's what you need to do) instead of 10,000 and runway.